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(No Model.)

F. G. LYNDE.

ii I ll UNITE STATES Erica.

ATENT AUTOMATIC VENDING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming pait of Letters Patent No. 366,490, dated July 12,1887.

Application filed August 2-1, 1886. Serial No. 211,718. (No model.)Patented in England October 7, 1885, No.11,911; in France September 6,1886, No. 178,353; in Belgium September 7, 1886, No. 7 1,171, and inItaly September 9, 1886, No. 20,495.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FnEDERIoK CHARLES LYNDE, a subject of the Queen ofGreat Britain and Ireland, residing at Manchester, in the county ofLancaster, England, have invented certain Improvements in Apparatus forthe Automatic Delivery of Prepaid Goods, (for which British Patent No.11,911, dated October 7, 1885, French Patent No. 178,853,

dated September 6, 1886, Belgian Patent No.

74,471, dated September 7, 1886, andltalian Patent No. 20,495, datedSeptember 9, 1886,

have been granted,) of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the construction of apparatus for the automaticdelivery of postalcards, cigarettes, or other similar articles on theproper coin being placed in the apparatus by the purchaser. In suchapparatus as hereto- 2O fore constructed difficulty has been experiencedin preventing the admission through the coin-slit in the casing of rain,dust, or other extraneous matters,and the consequent fouling of theworking parts of the apparatus.

The object of my invention is to provide improved means for introducingthe coin into such apparatus,whereby these inconveniences are obviated;and the main feature of my apparatus is a device, which I term a coin-3o slide, and which not only receives and introduces the coin, but bymeans of the latter also puts into motion the delivery-slide or otherportion of the apparatus which delivers or causes the delivery of thearticle required, as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional viewabout on theline 1 2, Fig. 2, but including a portion of the easing.Fig. 2 is a plan view of the coin-slide. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectionon the line 3 4, Fig. 1. Fig. 1 is a vertical section corresponding toFig. l but'of a modification on a smaller scale, and Fig. 5 is asectional plan view of a modification.

B Bis the coin slide, which is to be adapted to slide in the casing ofthe apparatus, a portion-say the front part-of the latter beingillustrated at A.

The form of the opening in the casing A 0 will be of the same outline asthat of the crosssection of the slide, Fig. 3.

In the upper surface of the coin'slide, at a point which will be justoutside the casing A when the slide is drawn out to its full extent, asshown in Fig. 1, I form a slit, a, of the proper size to receive thecoin. In the front of this slit is a recess, 0, to permit of theintroduction of an instrument to remove anybent coin or other articlewhich might become jammed in the slit. Vith this coin-slide is combineda plate, D, attached to or forming part of the casing and situatedpartially within the coinslide. shown in Fig. 1 to support the coinplaced in the slit a, and it has also an inclined portion, (1, which, asthe coin-slide is pushed into the apparatus to introduce the coin,causes the latter to slide upward in its slit and project above thesurface of the slide, as indicated by dotted lines at c, Fig. 1. Thesedotted lines represent the position which the coin would assume when theslide has been pushed in, say about an inch and a quarter. When itreaches this position, the coin comes into contact with a projection, f,from the slide 5 and as the coinslide is pushed still farther inward thecoin acts as a key and carries the movable slide 9 with it. This movableslide (a portion only of which is illustrated) may in itself be thedelivery-slide which delivers the article, or it may be so connected toany convenient working part of theapparatus as to cause the delivery ofthe article required whenever the coin-slide is pushed in to its fullextent with the proper coin in it.

I prefer to provide the plate D with a small projecting ratchetshapedtooth, h, which forms a catch to prevent the coin-slide and coin frombeing withdrawn when once they have set the delivery-slide g in motion.

As the coin-slide is pushed home the coin falls over the inner end ofthe plateD into any suitable receptacle bencath,which, for want ofconvenient space, has not been illustrated.

The operation is as follows: The coin-slide is first drawn out to itsfull extent, as shown in Fig. 1. The proper coin is then placed in theslit a, and the coin-slide is then pushed in again. As the coin passesthe incline d it is caused to project from the slide, as indicated bydotted lines, and, coming against the pro jection f on the movable slide9, it carries This plate serves in the construction.

the latter along with it, and thus causes the delivery of the article.The coin, as before stated, then falls over the end of the plate D intoa suitable receptacle.

Instead of arranging the movable slide g or its equivalent above thecoin-slide, it may be placed below with equal effect, as willbe readilyunderstood on reference to the modification shown in Fig. 4, or themovable slide may be placed at one side of the coin-slide and the coincaused to project to one side, as illustrated in the modification shownin the sectional plan View, Fig. 5.

I have illustrated and described my coinslide above set forth inconnection with and for operating different constructions of deliv: erymechanism in other applications for patents filed by me under SerialNos. 213,514, 217,821, and 218,881.

I claim as my invention- 1. An apparatus for the automatic delivery ofprepaid goods, said apparatus having a movable coin-slide provided witha slit to I receive the coin, said slit being exposed outside thecase'when the slide is drawn out and being Within the case when theslide is moved in, substantially as described, whereby the coin operatesthe delivery part of the apparatus by the movement of the slide.

2. The combination of the casing of an automatic delivery apparatus witha coin-slide having a slit outside the casing when the slide is drawnout, and a fixed inclined plane within the casing to partially projectthe coin from its slit as the slide is moved inward to operate thedelivery portion of the apparatus, all substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

- FRED. O. LYNDE. Witnesses:

GEORGE DAVIES, CHARLES A. Diivrns.

